Mustafa Hafez

Mustafa Hafez (died 13 July 1956) was a Colonel of Egypt who was responsible for recruiting refugees from Palestine to carry out attacks in Israel. He was assassinated by the IDF in 1956.

Biography
Mustafa Hafez was a Colonel in the Egyptian Army who fought against the Israeli general Ariel Sharon and assisted Palestinians on their commando raids into Israel in the 1950s under orders from President Gamal Abdel Nasser. On 13 July 1956 the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief-of-Intelligence Yehoshafat Harkabi launched an operation to assassinate Hafez, and Hafez was blown up by a parcel bomb.